A huge sinkhole opened up in the parking lot of Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon.
Videos of the incident show parked cars falling inside the huge crater that suddenly appeared in the pavement. The guard booth also partially collapsed inside the sinkhole.
Fire and Rescue Services, aided by the Jerusalem District’s Unit for Special Evacuations, arrived at the scene and searched for people that may have been injured or trapped or cars that fell in the sinkhole together with the passengers. Fortunately, the searches were completed and no one was found to have been trapped or injured.
Witnesses of the scene told B’Chadrei Chareidim that the incident could have ended with dozens of fatalities. “I saw it collapsing before my eyes,” one witness said. “Miraculously, only vehicles were damaged as they fell in the hole.”
MDA paramedic Aharon Miller told B’Chadrei that b’chasdei Shamayim, a terrible tragedy was avoided due to the timing of the incident. “If the sinkhole had opened shortly afterward, during the change in shifts at the hospital at 3 p.m., there would have been dozens of dead people. It’s mamash a neis, no less.”
It’s not yet known what caused the sinkhole but it’s believed that the mining of the Har Nof tunnel is what led to the collapse. This is the tunnel that was excavated as part of the construction of Highway 16 and the completion of the mining, which began in January 2021, is a key stage in the construction of the highway that will serve as the new main entrance to Jerusalem.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This week’s parsha is Korach.
Parshas KORACH!!
Holy cow! i’m sure everyone else already commented, but parshas KORACH!
Visual aid for this week’s parsha
Simulation of this week’s פרשת קרח where ground also suddenly opened up.
Parashat Korach Reminder.
Parshas Korech??? any connection?
Could this be related to the Hamas tunnels?
appropraite time Parshes Korech
Just in case nobody noticed, this week is parshas Korach! Just saying.
~ ותפתח ארץ את פיה
בימים ההם בזמן הזה
Yippee Doo. It’s a one in fifty two chance of being in parshas korach. And it would work well in other parshos as well.
It’s just a coincidence.
To Yeshivishrockstar
You say It’s just a coincidence. I say its השגחה
Ya yippee doo, but you forget other years as well yippee doo. Yippee doo, you are in idiot yippee doo.
The ramban says anyone who doesn’t believe that every single thing that happens with the Jewish people is a neis, has no chelek in Toras moshe.
Why toras Moshe bidavka? Because of this weeks parshsa where people wanted to go with a different torah. Like you.
This idiot is discussing a neis, and calling it coincidence.
Refuah sheleimah batman.
Yeshivishrockstar;
Why does it bother you that its Hashgacha has it on Parshas Korach?
Are you also just a coincidence?
Am I the only one who is less concerned with the Parsha and more concerned about where else in the tunnel area it could happen? Next time, chas v’sholom, it might not only be objects that are destroyed.
Hashem’s warning to Naftali Korach and On Ben Orbach?
parshas korach! why is nobody commenting that this happened the week of korach!